The Staff Ride to Monte Cassino enabled the unit to study the battle’s tactical, operational, and strategic lessons allowing the juxtaposition with current training and operational frameworks.

“Monte Cassino was one of the bulwarks in the defensive ... General Juin had granted his soldiers 50 hours' leave after the battle, giving them a green light to prey upon the local population.

Veterans are gathering to remember the Battle of Monte Cassino - one of the toughest battles fought in Western Europe in World War II, and still one of the most controversial. The allies were fighting ...

Nineteen U.S. Army Garrison Italy leaders traveled from Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, and Camp Darby, Pisa, to southern Italy to learn more about the World War II battle sites around Monte Cassino and ...

The Battle of Monte Cassino was a series of assaults the Allies made against German troops at an historic hilltop abbey in an effort to advance to Rome. It’s been regarded as one of the ...

The main observances of the battle's anniversary were held at the Polish War Cemetery at the Monte Cassino hill. Among those taking part in the commemorations was the daughter of General Anders ...

The Battle of Monte Cassino, in World War II, was among the most brutal the famed Māori Battalion was involved in with more than half of its soldiers killed, wounded or taken prisoner.

It was around Jan. 18, 1944, he said, and his unit, part of the U.S. Army's 34th Division, was readying for an early assault on the Nazi stronghold of Monte Cassino in Italy. That effort would be ...